Example Sentences

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Researchers believe the species' long, curved claws and its ability to strongly flex them would have made it an efficient grasper of vegetation.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

In two lines you have a portrait of Milligan as a self-aggrandizing grasper and Burger as the justifiably confident voice of authority.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The grasper successfully latched on to the gallbladder’s neck, and the rest of the operation went smoothly.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

Gilroy once again cast Russo, his wife, as a well-heeled, coreless grasper: Her gallery owner, Rhodora Haze, is an ex-punk who’s reinvented herself as a “purveyor of good taste.”

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

The wealth that could not be assimilated and administered has always left the receiver or grasper in all essentials poorer than he was before.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various